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Paten tad Apr. 4, i899.

IF. L. MEYER.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

(Application filed Apr. 25, 1898.)

(No Model.)

Inventor :3 warns on, were umc m FREDERICK L. MEYER,

CURTAIN OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,508, dated April 4,1899.

Application filed April 25, 1898.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK L. MEYER, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city of New York, county of Kings, State of New York,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Curtain-Fixtures,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to various new and useful improvements incurtain-fixtures for hanging portieres, draperies, and similar varietiesof curtains and for analogous purposes.

The objects of the invention are to provide and produce'acurtain-fixture which is simple in construction, which can bemade-cheaply, which will be ornamental in appearance, by which thecurtains will be 'firmly supported, and in the operation of which thecurtains may be quickly placed in or removed from position.

To attain these ends, my invention coinprises a hollow or tubularcurtain-pole, made of metal,'papier-mach, paper, wood, or any othersultable material, provided with a 1011- gitudlnal slot in its bottom,said pole having the usual and ordinary ornamental ends, at

least one of which is removable in order to disclose the free end ofsaid slot, and curtainsupporting brackets being employed, having rollersor enlarged-heads at their upper ends which work within the bore of thepole, the shank thereof fitting within the slot and capable oflongitudinal movement therein.

In order that my invention may be better understood, attention isdirected to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecification.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of my improved curtain-fixture; Fig.2, a cross-sectional view of same; and Fig. 3, an enlarged perspectiveview of the preferred form of ourtain-supporting clamp, the thumb-nutbeing removed.

In all of the above views corresponding parts are represented by thesame referencenumerals.

1 represents a pole of the required length,

tubular in form, and provided with a longitudinal slot 2 at its bottomextending, preferably, the entire lengthof the pole. The pole 1 may bemade of metal, papier-mach, paper, wood, or any suitable material, andthe slot is formed therein in any approved way. At

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one end the pole may be provided with a removable cap 3, permanentlysecured in place, and at the other end the pole is provided with aremovable cap 4:, which is removably secured in position and which whenremoved discloses the end of the slot. The cap 1 may be, and preferablyis, held in place by the friction between it and the pole 1, thepresence of the slot 2 in the pole allowing for a radial expansion ofthe latter within the cap a. In order to prevent any collapsing of thepole in use and the consequent loosening of the cap a,

the said cap may be provided with an internal flange 5, fitting withinthe interior of the pole, as shown in Fig. 1.

6 6 are a plurality of curtain-supporting clamps carrying the curtain orcurtains to be suspended from the pole. These clamps con1 prise,preferably, two elements 7 and 8, made of sheet metal and havingenlarged flat heads 9 9, lined with an elastic substance 10, such aschamois, leather, rubber, or felt, so as not to injure or stain thecurtains. Obviously, however, the lower or elastic material may beomitted, and the interior surface of the heads 9 9 may be suitablyroughened to effect a firm engagement with the curtains. Sections 7 and8 are pivoted in any suitable way'as, for example, by providing saidsections with upturned cars 11, which overlap and are secured by thepivot 12-and section 7 is provided with screw-shank 13, rigidly securedtherein, which extends through a slot 14. in section 8 and receives thethumb-nut 15, by which the two sections may be firmly clamped togetherto grasp the curtain. The section 7 is extended upward to constitute ashank 16, which works within the slot 2, and at its upper end receives,preferably, a pair of semispherical rollers 17, secured to a small shaft18, working in said shank and by which the curtainsupporting clamps maybe moved back and forth within the curtain-pole to properly drape thecurtain. Obviously the semispherical rollers 17 17 may be clampedtightly upon the shank 16, so as not to turn, and to thereby constitutepractically an enlarged head for supporting the clamps.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1. In a curtain-fixture the combination of a tubular pole having alongitudinal slot in its bottom, a removable ca'p frictionallymaintained at one end of said pole and engaging the exterior surfacethereof, an integral internal flange on the cap engaging the internalsurface or bore of the pole, and a plurality of curtain-supportin gdevices carried by the pole and depending through said slot,substantially as set forth.

2. In a curtain-fixture the combination of a tubular pole having alongitudinal slot in its bottom extending through one end thereof, a caprigidly secured to the pole-at the other end thereof, a removable capfrictionally maintained at the slotted end of the pole and FREDERICK L.MEYER.

WVitnesses:

FRANK L. DYER, Jim. R. TAYLOR.

